Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18952] New: The mount of SYN retries is not equal to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries

From: Damian Lukowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:35:41 +0200

Hi David,

give me some time, please. I'll take a closer look in the evening.

Regards
 Damian

Am Montag, den 27.09.2010, 01:10 -0700 schrieb David Miller:
> From: Yuri Chislov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:07:06 +0200
> 
> >   It looks like the behavior changed in 2.6.32. 2.6.32 and up, uses some 
> > calculation instead of a direct definition of the retries number, that makes it 
> > harder to achieve the necessary system behavior.
> > 
> >  The default behavior of the system changed completely
> > (the old default connect timeout was ~ 180 seconds, while the new one is ~21 
> > sec). 
> > 
> > The new behavior invalidates the kernel documentation and tcp man page.
> > 
> > It's not possible to set a connect timeout > 25 sec in the applications while 
> > using the default values in /proc. 
> > 
> > From my view point is regression.
> 
> Agreed, Damian you have to fix this.
> 
> Otherwise I'm reverting all of your Revert Backoff commits.